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Starting on 18 October 2019, Chile experienced the largest mass protests in its history. The movement was immensely broad in its demands and diverse in tactics and participants. The citizens' discontent went beyond solely one issue, addressing a more equal welfare system and social justice,...
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The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from … winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in … object less to certain types of extreme income inequality than commonly assumed. …
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implement under different decision conditions and with four alternative determinants of pre-tax income (two task-based, one … future position in the income distribution has a considerable impact on their tax choices. When sure of the effect on their …
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born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In …We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood … line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these effects depends on relative incomes or wages within the …
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The potential transformation of labour markets by the emergence of online labour platforms has triggered an intense academic, media and policy debate, but its true scale remains speculation. Nevertheless, adequate policy responses hinge on a good understanding of dynamics - something that will...
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The clock is ticking and time is running short for us to have a realistic chance to get climate change under control and prevent it becoming irreversible and selfsustaining. Phasing out coal is widely seen as a 'low hanging fruit' of climate policy commitments in the move towards a net zero...
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The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best … addition, there is evidence of the second wave occurring at lower income levels after 1990. But this change in the second wave …
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This paper presents a comprehensive set of stylised facts for business cycles in India from 1950-2010. We show that most macroeconomic variables are less volatile in the post reform period, even though the volatility of macroeconomic variables is still high and similar to other emerging market...
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Growth of per-capita income is associated with (i) significant shifts in the sectoral economic structure, (ii …, which reconciles both forces of structural change - relative price and income effects - with balanced growth on the … estimation, the model's functional form is exploited to obtain estimates for the relative importance of income and price effects …
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Detection of structural change is a critical empirical activity, but continuous 'monitoring' of series, for structural changes in real time, raises well-known econometric issues that have been explored in a single series context. If multiple series co-break then it is possible that simultaneous...
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